What salary do you need to live in Orlando, FL?

Orlando housing costs at a glance

Median gross rent, meaning contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities, runs $1,538, $1,723 and $1,993 a month for one, two and three bedrooms across Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL. The largest of those is 30% more than the smallest.

Homeowners in Orlando report a median home value of $369,800. That works out to 4.7× the local median household income of $78,533, a mid-range ratio.

Price levels matter beyond rent. The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures Orlando's overall prices at 101.4 on a scale where the nation is 100, which makes a $100,000 salary feel like about $98,602 would elsewhere.

Orlando: the pre-tax income for each grade

The salary lines for a two-bedroom household land at $58,000 for Tight, $115,000 for Okay and $232,000 for Comfortable. The gap between the Okay and Comfortable lines alone is $117,000, which says how much extra income it takes to make housing feel roomy here rather than merely workable.

The Royal grade is within reach at $797,000 a year, where both rent and the median home price look small next to income.

How they were found: the same scoring function the calculator runs was evaluated at rising incomes until each cutoff was crossed, and the crossing rounded up to a whole $1,000.

Four salaries, three home sizes in Orlando

Choosing a bigger place in Orlando at $75,000 trims the score from 35 to 31 without leaving Tight.

In Orlando the table's top salary of $150,000 stops at Okay (53) for two bedrooms; Comfortable starts higher, at $232,000.

Orlando compared with every US metro

Out of 387 metros, Orlando has the 63rd highest price parity and the 32nd highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it in the top quarter on overall prices and in the top 10% on rent.

Trenton-Princeton, NJ ($1,734) and Manchester-Nashua, NH ($1,722) bracket Orlando on two-bedroom rent.

Orlando vs. the rest of Florida

Statewide, Florida's median two-bedroom rent is $1,664 and its median home value $359,000. Orlando's rent is +4% against that, and its home value +3%; the price parity is 101.4 versus 103.4 for the state.

Run Florida's statewide medians through the same score and Comfortable begins at $235,000; Orlando's line is −1% from that.

If Orlando is on your list, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL, and Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL are the most similar Florida metros by two-bedroom rent and price level; the table shows where each turns Comfortable.

Does the typical Orlando income clear the bar?

A household at the Orlando median income of $78,533 would see a two-bedroom score of 34 — Tight — with rent at 26% of income. The Comfortable line is 195% above what the median household makes. Statewide, the Florida median household ($74,568) grades Tight on the state's own medians. Household income can include more than one earner, so a single salary of the same size goes less far.

All figures are pre-tax estimates from public data, not financial advice.